Here’s a wonderful example of this stylish axe type that was in use in Sweden and the Baltic region during the Viking period….
The stamped decoration is of the same type used on some of the axes illustrated in Peter Paulsen’s “Axt und Kreutz bie den Nordgermannen,” Fig. 27.
Check out this one from the Swedish museum, it has crazy proto-art deco inlay pattern and a remarkable state of preservation:
http://wwwt.historiska.se/mis/sok/in....asp?uid=74125